Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead — Finland

Academic Work Finland Oy; Uusimaa; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Own technology & culture

Onsite in Finland

Job summary

Academic Work Finland Oy seeks a Senior Engineer to bridge hands-on coding and technical leadership in Finland. You will remain deeply technical while acting as the local engineering lead, driving execution, supporting developers, and partnering with product and leadership stakeholders.

You will join a team where engineering has a strong voice and modern practices, including AI-driven workflows, are integrated.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong experience in backend or fullstack software development.
• Proficiency with Containers and CI/CD Pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a newly established engineering team onsite in Finland.
• Stay hands-on in architecture, system design, and software development.
• Establish engineering practices, ways of working, and team culture.
• Mentor and coach developers through technical guidance and collaboration.
• Partner with Product and Design to deliver business impact across Sweden and Finland.
• Improve development workflows, tooling, automation, and engineering efficiency.
• Build and operate scalable systems using GCP and containerized technologies.

Skills

GCP architectures

Backend or fullstack

Containers and CI/CD

Mentoring developers

English communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Academic Work Finland Oy seeks a Senior Engineer to bridge hands-on coding and technical leadership in Finland. You will remain deeply technical while acting as the local engineering lead, driving execution, supporting developers, and partnering with product and leadership stakeholders.

You will join a team where engineering has a strong voice and modern practices, including AI-driven workflows, are integrated.